Retired attorney and preservationist Tony Gelderman has restored several historic buildings over the past 30 years. His ...

Antonia Salzano wasn't particularly religious until she saw faith through her son. Others can follow his example, she said ...

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

Joan of Arc, a peasant girl from Domrémy, changed the course of the Hundred Years' War by leading France to victory over ...

In 1212, he helped establish a second order for women, called the Poor Ladies of San Damiano, later known as the Poor Clares, led by St Clare of Assisi. In 1224, while on retreat at Mount La Verna ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was anointed as the Pope, he chose to rename himself as Francis after St. Francis of Assisi ... dedicated to St. Clare, who embraced radical poverty to imitate ...

And St. Clare — dedicated to Clare of Assisi — was one of them. The mission church was originally housed within a rented home on Giffords Lane between Katan and Dewey avenues, according to ...

The bishop of Assisi, author of a book on the links between Carlo, Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi - one of the first followers of Francis - said he hoped the canonisation would attract a “new ...

Provided The Order of St. Clare was founded in 1212 in Assisi, Italy, by St. Clare of Assisi, a young woman who had heard St. Francis preach faith and “evangelistic poverty.” Today ...